Pioneers
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Women Gold Rush
Men Gold Rush
100
Ivan Kuskov
Who created Fort Ross?
100
Pio Pico
Who was the last Mexican mayor?
100
He was the seventh and last military governor of the territory of California before it became a U.S. state. He also served as a general in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War.
Who was Bennet Riley?
100
She was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government.
Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
100
He was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who reported the finding of gold at Coloma on the American River in California on January 24, 1848.
Who was James Marshall?
200
John Sutter
Who created Sutter's Fort
200
He was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer.
Who was James Beckwourth?
200
The last governor of California when it was Mexican.
Who was Pio Pico?
200
Mary Tape was a biracial Chinese American woman who believed that her daughter, Mamie, should have the same access to education as white children in San Francisco. In particular, Mary Tape wanted her daughter to be able to attend public school. When the local school principal, Jennie Hurley, stood in the schoolhouse door to bar Mamie’s entrance on the sole grounds that she was Chinese.
Who was Mary Tape?
200
Levi Strauss was a German-American businessman of German Jewish descent who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
Who was Levi Strauss?
300
He partially created the Gold Rush.
What role did Sutter play in the expansion of C.A?
300
He was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
Who is John C. Fremont?
300
The Americans won it in the Mexican-American War.
How did C.A. become American?
300
She was a once illiterate Black slave woman who worked as a nurse/midwife and then walked from Mississippi to California to become a successful entrepreneur and a generous contributor to social causes.
Who was Bridget "Biddy" Mason?
300
John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
Who was John C. Fremont?
400
A place for trappers to trap sea otters.
What was Fort Ross supposed to be?
400
He is considered the first publicist of the California Gold Rush and was its first millionaire. Also an entreprenuer
Who was Sam Brannan?
400
Monarchy or, Democracy.
What was one of the government types that the Mexicans used?
400
They helped make lots of C.A. towns boomtowns.
Why did women have an impact on C.A?
400
James Pierson Beckwourth was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. An African American born into slavery in Virginia, he was freed by his father and apprenticed to a blacksmith; later he moved to the American West.
Who was James Beckwourth?
500
A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
What is a pioneer?
500
He was an American politician and the first state governor of California.
Who is Peter H. Burnett?
500
A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.
DAILY DOUBLE!! What is the definition of a "Boomtown"?
500
Bridget "Biddy" Mason
What is the name of the person who had a middle name that was Biddy?
500
The creator of Sutters Fort.
Who was John Sutter?
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